Usually paired with Homer as one of the two greatest ancient Greek poets,
Sappho's poety has come down to us only in fragments.
Even these fragments are so evocative, however, that Sappho has
become a mirror which each generation uses to reinterpret the
question: "What is erotic?"

Sappho and Phaon
by Mary Robinson [1796]The doomed love of Sappho for Phaon, by the 18th century 'English Sappho,' Mary RobinsonThe Poems of Sappho
translated by John Myers O'Hara [1910]A modern interpretive rendition of Sappho into EnglishThe Poems of SapphoEnglish and Transliterated Greek
translated by Edwin Marion Cox [1925]A collection of Sappho interpretationsThe Poems of Sappho (Unicode)English and Greek
translated by Edwin Marion Cox [1925]Sappho in the original GreekThe Songs of Bilitis
by Pierre Louÿs, tr. by Alvah C. Bessie [1926]A famous hoax, which has had a huge impact on our modern perception of Sappho.Aphrodite (Ancient Manners)
by Pierre Louÿs, tr. by Willis L. Parker, ill. by Frank J. Buttera [1932]Tragic loves of a courtesan in Ptolemaic Egypt, from the author of Bilitis.